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Monday, February 24, 2014

Hamstring Stretch for Runners – Don’t Make This Common Mistake

Sometimes it pays to revisit some basics… the basics like effective hamstring stretching. This is an area that a surprising number of runners get slightly wrong!

In this quick video below, I explains and demonstrate the difference between a stretch which brings on an intense feeling behind the knee, and a true stretch of the hamstring muscles.

Sciatic Tension vs Hamstring Stretch

The intense feeling or ‘burn’ behind the knee that many runners associate with feeling a hamstring stretch is often actually the feeling of increasing tension on the sciatic nerve as you lean forward… rather than the targeted hamstring muscles themselves.

Instead we should be looking to create a stretching feeling in the muscle belly of each of those hamstring muscles (middle of the posterior thigh), using the hamstring stretch in the video. Try it!

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About Marilyn Kaminski

Thank you for visiting my blog! I have been working as a sports medicine specialist/athletic trainer and sports performance coach since 1998. I consider myself to be a visionary entrepreneur, innovative Sports Performance Coach/Athletic Trainer, and Sports Medicine Expert whom always thinks outside of the box and takes a whole body and hands-on approach to the development of athletes and rehabbing sports injuries. I opened Efficient Movement, a sports performance and sports medicine company, in 2009 with the purpose to share my immense passion and expertise with youth athletes that desire to become successful athletes without the worry of injuries.
In addition, I have been blessed with motherhood and an amazing husband and the desire to always learn and succeed!
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